Scrag vs Scag - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between scrag and scag

is that scrag is (archaic) a thin or scrawny person or animal while scag is (slang|uncountable) heroin.

As verbs the difference between scrag and scag

is that scrag is (obsolete|colloquial) to hang on a gallows, or to strangle or garotte or choke while scag is (computing) to destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the filesystem or by causing media damage.

scrag

English

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) A thin or scrawny person or animal.

(archaic) The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end.

(archaic) The neck, especially of a sheep.

(Scotland) A scrog.

(Australia, slang, derogatory) A rough or unkempt woman.

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, title=feed up with noise in cinemas , group=aus.films , author=Shane , date=June 9 , year=1998 , passage=The large guy said that he couldnt sit down the front because of an eye condition, and she said,out loud, "too bad, go down the front".
This was all heard by most of the crowd, 1 guy called her a bitch, i spoke out loud "what a scrag " which her boyfriend heard, he turned around agro like to defend her, when another guy yelled out "if you get agro about that son, ill be over there to show your girlfriend some manners", to which he promplty sat down :-), but after that she put her feet up on the seat in front of her !! citation

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, title=The Observer AND the Times: Episode 3.7 Revelations , group=aus.tv.buffy , author=Kenny , date=December 18 , year=1999 , passage=Post scrag fight, Buffy is sweetness and light in her cardy and teeny tiny handbag (plus blonde hair) contrasting with Faith who is lying in bed with her kill-me-thrill-me cutoff shorts (plus brunette hair). citation

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, title=The Chief takes a hit , group=alt.ozdebate , author=Peter Lucas , date=June 2 , year=2003 , passage=Get a life, you stupid scrag . citation

A ragged, stunted tree or branch.

Verb

(scragg)

(obsolete, colloquial) To hang on a gallows, or to strangle or garotte or choke.

To harass, to manhandle

* 1958 , , Chapter 15

*:'...I urged him ... to ... try the Ickenham System ... a little thing I knocked together in my bachelor days ... it has a good many points in common with all-in wrestling and osteopathy. I generally recommend it to diffident wooers and it always works like magic...'

*:Johnny stared.

*:'You mean you told McMurdo to ... scrag her?'

To kill or destroy.

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, year=2009 , author=Steve Augarde , title=Celandine , chapter= citation , isbn=0440422167 , page=162 , passage=But they'll scrag' you for it, you know, if you do. They ' scrag anyone who speaks to me.}}

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scag

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Alternative forms

* skag

Noun

(slang, uncountable) heroin

(slang, countable, pejorative) A woman of loose morals.

Verb

(computing) To destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the filesystem or by causing media damage.

"That last power hit scagged the system disk."

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